Andrew Jackson Downing Quotes

Fine fruit is the flower of commodities. It is the most perfect union of the useful and the beautiful that the earth knows. Trees full of soft foliage; blossoms fresh with spring bounty; and, finally, fruit, rich, bloom-dusted, melting, and luscious.

Andrew Jackson Downing

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• I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Style
  • Like
  • Excellent

• I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Believe
  • You
  • Kind

• When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Great
  • Bad
  • College

• I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Before I got married, I dated the gamut.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Married
  • Before
  • Got

• Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Truth
  • Opinion
  • Forever

• And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Time
  • Different
  • Love

• When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Pretty
  • You
  • Interesting

• I was very competitive. I hated losing. No matter what, I had to win.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Win
  • Matter
  • Losing

• Any can do it - BE RADIANT! Make the decision. I want to be an agent of change to a loving world - so I will be radiant.

  

  Patch Adams
  • World
  • Decision

• Everyone has to find what is right for them, and it is different for everyone. Eating for me is how you proclaim your beliefs three times a day. That is why all religions have rules about eating. Three times a day, I remind myself that I value life and do not want to cause pain to or kill other living beings. That is why I eat the way I do.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Life
  • Different
  • Why

• I don't like your I-can-use-anything-as-an-adjective attitude.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Attitude

• Though Jesus Christ in Bethlehem A thousand times his Mother bore, Is he not born again in thee Then art thou lost for evermore.

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Art
  • Mother
  • Lost

• It is a funny view of the world that a book can cause riots.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Book
  • Funny

• In my lifetime all our problems have come from mainland Europe and all the solutions have come from the English-speaking nations across the world.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • World
  • English

• Gary Ross is amazing. He’s just-he always has a billion ideas of what he wants, but has a very clear perspective also; he just makes it work. He really does. He’s trying different things and making everything look amazing.

  

  Liam Hemsworth
  • Work
  • Different
  • Trying

• I've always had to work hard for what I've got and to stay where I was.

  

  Jessica Capshaw
  • Work

• You do get into a groove, which is great, when you get to act with the same people a lot. Like with Caroline Catz - it's like a duet: you're like a duo jamming together.

  

  Martin Clunes
  • People
  • Great
  • Together

• I remember being 24 in Los Angeles. And up until that moment, when my mom would call my cell phone and it would ring, I would be flushed with some sort of excitement that we all have - a little dopamine rush, when my phone rings - and I'd look down, and it would say, 'Mom.' It used to feel like a job to pick that up.

  

  Mike Posner
  • Up
  • Job
  • Remember

• When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence.

  

  Evan Dando
  • Women
  • Jokes
  • Feminine

• I was always the class clown, and I think I gravitated toward performing for the attention I didn't always think I was getting at home.

  

  Chrissy Metz
  • Home
  • Attention

• While we still have some reservations about individual units discriminating against gay adults, we couldn't be more excited about the future of Scouting.

  

  Zacharia Wahls
  • Scouting
  • Gays
  • Discriminating

• I'm quite an optimist, quite happy in life, quite smiley.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Optimist

• Fine fruit is the flower of commodities. It is the most perfect union of the useful and the beautiful that the earth knows. Trees full of soft foliage; blossoms fresh with spring bounty; and, finally, fruit, rich, bloom-dusted, melting, and luscious.

  

  Andrew Jackson Downing
  • Earth
  • Commodities